²⁵ There was a great famine^(A) in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels^[a] of silver, and a quarter of a cab^[b] of seed pods^[c](B) for five shekels.^[d]

¹² Eat the food as you would a loaf of barley bread; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement^(A) for fuel.”